Farmers across the UK are calling on the government to do more to protect their land from flooding, with standing water still sitting across thousands of hectares of farmland due to Storm Henk.
While farms often have areas allocated for managed flooding, some farmers are complaining that the level of inundation…
Strong winds reaching 160km/h and flooding caused by Storm Henk have damaged railways and roads across southern and western England over the past 24 hours.
Rail With almost 300 flood warnings issued, a tunnel was flooded between Bristol Temple Meads and Weston-super-Mare leading the line to be shut, according to Great…
Engineering services firm Ayesa has been appointed as lead consultant to progress the tendering and detailed design and construction of the €57M (£49M) Arklow Flood Relief Scheme in County Wicklow, Ireland.
The project aims to mitigate recurring flooding challenges in Arklow, a town with a population of almost 14,000. It involves…
In December 2023, the National Audit Office (NAO) warned that extreme weather resilience must be front of mind for governments, engineering service providers, city planners and more.
Whilst the UK has response plans for weather events such as surface-level flooding and high temperatures, the country is still on the back…
Essex and Suffolk Water has completed its £14M project to double the capacity of a water treatement works (WTW), which will improve drinking water for over 1M people and protect the environment.
The investment in the washwater facility at Hanningfield WTW has seen the installation of two new 1.25Ml tanks, along…
An Archirodon and Deme consortium has been awarded an estimated £795M (US$1bn) contract for the second phase of work to expand the Neom port at Oxagon in Saudi Arabia.
The port is located along the coast of the Red Sea and is adjacent to the nearby Suez Canal, through which 13%…
Yorkshire Water will fund 20 farmers in the East Riding to plant 10ha each of “pop-up rainforests” that will help combat the county’s increasing flood risk.
The water company hopes the proposal will improve soil quality in the region, reduce nutrients entering watercourses and slow the flow of rainwater to reduce…
Taylor Woodrow has been appointed to deliver £120M strategic infrastructure upgrades for Meridian Water, a £6bn regeneration project led by Enfield Council.
The overall Meridian Water vision is a 25-year regeneration project that will create 10,000 homes, including 4,000 affordable homes. The Meridian Water train station, which opened in 2019, provides…
The UK’s independent public spending watchdog has concluded that the government has no clearly defined targets or effective strategy to make the country resilient against extreme weather.
The National Audit Office’s (NAO’s) new report Government resilience: extreme weather assesses the country’s readiness to withstand four extreme weather risks: droughts, surface water…
A 3D concrete printed drawpit structure has been installed at Yorkshire Water’s second largest wastewater treatment works near Bradford.
It comes as part of a drive to consider how more sustainable materials can be used in the construction process. Finnish technology company Hyperion Robotics, working in collaboration with Tarmac and Mott…
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